Lunch in Eastbourne!

Today, Andrea said we were going out. 

So it was up to the bus stop to get into town....

We gave them a CD!

We got off here and had to wait for another bus....

.....and since we had some time to spare, we had a nose round a fabric shop we'd never been in!!  They've got some lovely stuff in there but it's expensive - we saw some lovely batik fabrics but they cost £12.99 a metre!!

Then our bus came and we were off!!!  There's that lovely art nouveau building!

That's a place for blind military people...

it's a huge building!!

And there's Saltdean Lido!!!  That's really pretty too!!!

OoOo we're going through Newhaven now!!!  there's lots of boats over there!

This is Cuckmere Haven!  Well the Haven bit is the other side of the road, but this is the other less famous bit!!

We're in Eastbourne!!!  That's the train station over there!

We left a floppy disc on the hand rail...

.....just before we arrived at Eastbourne Pier!!!  It's quite fuggy over the Channel today....

And we were met by Diane and her brand new Bear!  He's so new we don't know his name yet!!!

Outside the Pier, we found another Bear having an icecream so we said hello!

Then we walked along the seafront to Harry Ramsden's because we were STARVING!!!

Now..... what shall we have??

First of all we got the refreshments!!!

SCHLURP!!!

For lunch we had plaice and chips for a tenner!!!

It was NOMMY!!!

After our nomtastic lunch, we had a wander the other way along the seafront back the way we came and we left a bookcrossing book here.

And then decided to go on the Pier!

We found some arcade games so we thought we'd have a go!  This one isn't the usual shuffle board game and was a bit weird....

BUT WE WON A PRIZE!!!!!  HURRAY!!!!

Then we went to help Diane because she hadn't won anything yet.

We ended up winning TWO PRIZES EACH!

It was BRILLIANT!!!

We haven't done that for ages, it was so much fun!

then we had another walk along the seafront and we left a CD on the rail!

By now it was nearly three o'clock so we decided it was probably best to get the bus.  When we got to the bus stop there was a HUGE ENORMOUS queue of people, some of whom had been waiting over an hour for the number 12X bus!!!  There's supposed to be one every 20 minutes!!!

Luckily one turned up 15 minutes later and we all got on!  I waved goodbye to Diane and Bear!

And we're off!

That's Cuckmere Haven, the famous bit!

It's still very misty over the Channel.....

Oooo you can see the cliffs there!

And here we are at Brighton!

We got off here and got another bus to get us home!

Here we go!  This bus was really busy too!

We got off near here and saw a Dinosaur on the wall!!

And then when we got to the Tesco car park, our friend Cat came to say hello!!!

We love Cat!!

We made a video of Cat - won't stay still though!!!

But she did in the end!!!

When we got home we got out the present Diane gave us!

Lots of blue wallpaper samples from Farrow and Ball!

They've lovely!!!

We went to Eastbourne!!!

Today Andrea said we were going out.  String Beanie said he was coming too!!

After Andrea got some money out, we went to the bus stop....

.....and got a bus to here just in time to get another bus!!!

Wonder where we're going.....

We tied a floppy disc to this bus!

And found grafitti on a wall!!

We made a video on the way!

And this one is of Saltdean Lido!

We reached a bus stop called Stud Farm.  What's a Stud Farm??

Gosh it's pretty countryside round here....

After quite a long time, we got off here!!!

We're at Eastbourne Pier!!!  String's never been here before!

THEY'VE GOT A PENNY ARCADE!!!  Andrea remembered to bring some of our 2p coins too - LET'S GO IN!!!

String Beanie won a prize!!!  It's a Haribo hotdog!!!

Then we decided to have a walk along the seafront.

There was a market going on..... Macarons!!!  Let's buy some!!

And a cheese stall too!!  Can we have some cheese??  The chap running this one cut off bits of different cheese for us to taste, and Andrea let us choose our favourite!!!

We found some skull and crossbones!  That's one of the things to find on my treasure hunt!!

WOL BAG!!!

Oh that was fun!!  

We decided to walk the other way along the seafront and left a CD on the railing.

We made another video - isn't it brill?!?!

We left a book on a bench near the fort too.  Someone might read it....

Then we walked back towards the Pier

That hotel has flags - that's another item to find on our treasure hunt!!

We left another CD on the railing....

And then made use of the facilities by the Pier.  We left them a book!!

Then we went back to the bus stop because we figured it was almost home time.  We left a floppy disc here!  We had about 20 minutes to wait before the next bus so we had a little wander round.

They have lions on their lamp posts!!

Then we saw some motorbikes!!!

When we got on the bus, Andrea said we could go upstairs!!!  We got a seat at the front!!

We gave them a CD too!!

And we're off!!!

We went past the seafront market!!

Coo, look at that view!

We made a video of Cuckmere Haven - that's so pretty!

We must come back here for a proper look you know.

It's lovely.

There's even people paddle boarding on part of it!!

We saw a pretty church on the way....

And that's Newhaven Harbour!!  There's ferries that leave there that go to France!

We went along some very high cliffs too

Ooooh - we're getting into Brighton now!

That's Brighton Marina!!!

The bus we were on had to go on diversion because of very heavy traffic near Brighton Pier so we got off (finally!) here and got on another bus to get home.

We saw a funny fire engine on the way!!!

And found another graffitt'd cable box!  I think that's another treasure hunt item, isn't it??

Then we got another bus home and gave them a floppy disc!

When we got off, we left another bookcrossing book at the bus stop!

And then it's just down here to get home!!!

We were all starving hungry so we had a quick snack and then got out the shopping to show Jelly Beanie!

We got two chutneys - caramelised onion and potting shed!!

These are lemon curd (string's favourite!) and strawberry jam!!!

That's the cheese that we chose!!!

Lancaster Bomber!!!!

Those are the macarons - two of them got a bit mashed in the bag but Andrea said that means we get to eat them before dinner.  Like, NOW!  (so we did!!  Haha!)

I made Andrea a Bloody Mary to drink wiv one of my special swizzley sticks wiv wobbly gooley eyes.  The eyes wobble when you swizzle!!!!!

That was a fun day out!!